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Post by Staffsoatcake on Oct 31, 2023 14:09:05 GMT
When you started drinking?
Double Diamond was mine, lovely drink, pity they stopped making it.
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Post by svengaliinplatforms on Oct 31, 2023 14:25:54 GMT
Low C (but the hangovers were a bastard).
Oranjeboom.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2023 14:26:22 GMT
Cummin's Cider.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Oct 31, 2023 14:27:56 GMT
Hooch
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Post by mickeythemaestro on Oct 31, 2023 14:30:51 GMT
Pints and pints of Pedigree. The guffs the following day were majestic 😆 especially if you'd stopped for a cheese and egg burger at castle kebab House on the way home 😆
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Post by beats88 on Oct 31, 2023 14:39:06 GMT
Reef Alcopops... The thought now makes me sick.
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Post by elystokie on Oct 31, 2023 14:39:26 GMT
The parties we had as teenagers were usually awash with Woodpeckers, Strongbow or Bulmers Cider.
When I started work and going to the pubs it was lager, Skol mainly, 24p a pint at the time in the Sea Lion in Stoke 🙂
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Post by mickeythemaestro on Oct 31, 2023 14:41:24 GMT
The parties we had as teenagers were usually awash with Woodpeckers, Strongbow or Bulmers Cider. When I started work and going to the pubs it was lager, Skol mainly, 24p a pint at the time in the Sea Lion in Stoke 🙂 Giving your age away there chief, 24p a pint 😳 |
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Post by stiggerstackle on Oct 31, 2023 14:44:26 GMT
I've always drank whatever was going, but I do remember getting slaughtered on Southern Comfort at a 16th birthday party, and now, 34 years later if I get even the merest whiff of that Satan juice I'm dry heaving in a corner...
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Post by BuzzB on Oct 31, 2023 14:51:48 GMT
Skol or Castlemain 4X, we’ve come a long way
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Post by mickeythemaestro on Oct 31, 2023 15:01:58 GMT
I've always drank whatever was going, but I do remember getting slaughtered on Southern Comfort at a 16th birthday party, and now, 34 years later if I get even the merest whiff of that Satan juice I'm dry heaving in a corner... Did the same with a litre of Gordon's gin. Sadly I can still drink it 😔 🤣 |
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Post by Northy on Oct 31, 2023 15:22:43 GMT
Pedigree in the Queens head in Talke, or some awful shit in the pubs in Pompey
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Post by phileetin on Oct 31, 2023 15:26:12 GMT
it was mainly bass , worthington e and burton bitter plus ansells , beer at home davenports and watneys when i was 16-18. couldn't really drink much beer without getting pissed so i tended to have shandy or vodka with lime/orange. had 22 of them on my 18th birthday .
got pissed on newcastle brown when i was 17 and didn't touch it again for about 20 yrs. the bed was spinning so much that night i was holding onto it like the vitruvian man ( im sure da vinci had been drinking it when he invented the helicopter )
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Post by mtrstudent on Oct 31, 2023 15:34:35 GMT
Reef Alcopops... The thought now makes me sick. Born in 1988 as well mate?  |
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Post by beats88 on Oct 31, 2023 15:39:06 GMT
Reef Alcopops... The thought now makes me sick. Born in 1988 as well mate? Bang on  |
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Post by sticky on Oct 31, 2023 15:58:11 GMT
I've always drank whatever was going, but I do remember getting slaughtered on Southern Comfort at a 16th birthday party, and now, 34 years later if I get even the merest whiff of that Satan juice I'm dry heaving in a corner... same experience with sherry, I can smell if from miles, away and it has me heaving🤢 |
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Post by sticky on Oct 31, 2023 16:01:16 GMT
20/20, thunderbirds, hooch, woodpecker (that was all at school sort of age.. never used to really like the taste of lager but that soon changed! Caffreys was a game changer as well, and as much as I detest carling.. carling prem😋.
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Post by frasier37 on Oct 31, 2023 16:01:41 GMT
M&B Dark Mild  Park Inn 16yrs Old....thought it would make me seem older drinking that |
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Post by davethebass on Oct 31, 2023 16:13:18 GMT
When you started drinking? Double Diamond was mine, lovely drink, pity they stopped making it. First full pint of beer I ever remember having was Double Diamond, one of my uncles gave it me at a wedding, it seemed like the size of a bucket and I could only hold it with both hands. When I started drinking buying my own booze with my pocket money it was Woodpecker cider cos that was the cheapest per unit of alcohol. Then we moved on to Carlsberg Special Brew (it still came in bottles then). Then we were 14 and old enough get served in the Sea lion |
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Post by jesusmcmuffin on Oct 31, 2023 16:20:15 GMT
I've always drank whatever was going, but I do remember getting slaughtered on Southern Comfort at a 16th birthday party, and now, 34 years later if I get even the merest whiff of that Satan juice I'm dry heaving in a corner... Same here Awful stuff but didn't think so that night. K Cider |
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Post by swampmongrel on Oct 31, 2023 16:20:47 GMT
Château Lafite Rothschild usually.
Sometimes Tennants Super.
Depended on my mood.
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Post by thebet365 on Oct 31, 2023 16:29:01 GMT
Choice :
Red Rock Cider
Castlemain XXXX
Skint n trying get pissed cheap
Diamond White
Mad Dog 20/20
TNT Cider
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Post by mickeythemaestro on Oct 31, 2023 16:30:27 GMT
When you started drinking? Double Diamond was mine, lovely drink, pity they stopped making it. First full pint of beer I ever remember having was Double Diamond, one of my uncles gave it me at a wedding, it seemed like the size of a bucket and I could only hold it with both hands. When I started drinking buying my own booze with my pocket money it was Woodpecker cider cos that was the cheapest per unit of alcohol. Then we moved on to Carlsberg Special Brew (it still came in bottles then). Then we were 14 and old enough get served in the Sea lion Did you have the classic Keele University fake ID. Paid 5 nicker for mine at school and it worked a treat 😆 |
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Post by davethebass on Oct 31, 2023 16:37:56 GMT
First full pint of beer I ever remember having was Double Diamond, one of my uncles gave it me at a wedding, it seemed like the size of a bucket and I could only hold it with both hands. When I started drinking buying my own booze with my pocket money it was Woodpecker cider cos that was the cheapest per unit of alcohol. Then we moved on to Carlsberg Special Brew (it still came in bottles then). Then we were 14 and old enough get served in the Sea lion Did you have the classic Keele University fake ID. Paid 5 nicker for mine at school and it worked a treat 😆 Oh god no never heard of them haha. Love the resourcefulness! |
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Post by mickeythemaestro on Oct 31, 2023 16:43:09 GMT
Did you have the classic Keele University fake ID. Paid 5 nicker for mine at school and it worked a treat 😆 Oh god no never heard of them haha. Love the resourcefulness! A school pal of mine lived on keele campus and could get hold of the blank union cards. Thin cardboard in those days. Fill it in and slap a photo on and off to the blackfriars we went 😆 |
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Post by jimmygscfc1234 on Oct 31, 2023 16:51:43 GMT
Double Diamond, but got an older kid to buy it down at The Wheatsheaf in Utch. Newcastle Brown down at the Paddock Suite at the Racecourse, all at 15/16 or so and then got a taste for Rum and Black!!!! Got carried out of the pub on Christmas Eve age 18 (or was it 17?) and threw up in the Market Place. Never touched it again. These days like a good red wine and a good bitter, as well as the odd G&T, and in the winter, a nice single malt.
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Post by henry on Oct 31, 2023 16:55:15 GMT
Tetley Bitter and if feeling brave a couple of Burton Ales
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Post by davethebass on Oct 31, 2023 16:57:24 GMT
Oh god no never heard of them haha. Love the resourcefulness! A school pal of mine lived on keele campus and could get hold of the blank union cards. Thin cardboard in those days. Fill it in and slap a photo on and off to the blackfriars we went 😆 Haha sweeeet, them were the days ey. When I was 18 my younger brother nicked my birth certificate so he could get in clubs up anley. I wonner that bothered about clubs though, before I was 18 I was just happy with whatever pubs would serve us 😅 |
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Post by lordb on Oct 31, 2023 17:21:41 GMT
Anything in a bottle as it was harder to spill
Diamond White and Newcastle Brown featured a lot
Wouldn't touch either now
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Post by somersetstokie on Nov 1, 2023 10:27:20 GMT
When I first started drinking in pubs it would have been early seventies, and I used to have Worthington E at the Telegraph in Stafford, at 17p a pint(three shillings and 5d). The pub at the time was run by ex Stoke midfield player Gerry Bridgwood.
I remember that if we were out and about in Mid Staffs we used to try to find some Joules, Stone Ale. My elder brother actually designed and drew a bar top advert display, featuring a bottle of Joules, and titled "A study in Brown". For a while he sometimes was able to talk his way into a free pint in some pubs on the strength of it, particularly in the Star at Stone.
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